The latest articles on DEV Community by Arshita Sharma (@arshita_sharma). https://dev.to/arshita_sharma https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4017789%2F0db2bf8b-983e-4f4c-802e-f73a7ed3a819.png https://dev.to/arshita_sharma en Arshita Sharma Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:53:19 +0000 https://dev.to/citedspy/why-traditional-seo-is-dying-and-how-we-built-citedspy-to-track-geo-466g https://dev.to/citedspy/why-traditional-seo-is-dying-and-how-we-built-citedspy-to-track-geo-466g <p>Every week, nearly a billion people use tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity to research products. Most of them never click through to a traditional website link. They ask for recommendations, get an answer, and make a decision right there. </p> <p>If your brand isn’t in that generated answer, you’re completely invisible. </p> <p>This is the shift from <strong>SEO (Search Engine Optimization)</strong> to <strong>GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)</strong>. But there was a massive problem: there was no developer-friendly, indie-priced way to actually track how these AI models talk about your brand daily. </p> <p>So, we built <strong>CitedSpy</strong>.</p> <h2> 🚀 What is CitedSpy? </h2> <p><strong>CitedSpy</strong> is an AI visibility tracker made to help teams monitor, analyze, and optimize how they are recommended across 6 major AI engines: <strong>ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, and Grok.</strong></p> <p>Instead of manually typing prompts into different interfaces every Friday, CitedSpy automates the entire workflow:</p> <ul> <li> <strong>Daily Tracking:</strong> AI gives different answers every time. We check every prompt 7 times a week per engine to give you an accurate, aggregate visibility score.</li> <li> <strong>Share of Voice:</strong> Side-by-side comparison charts against up to 15 competitors.</li> <li> <strong>Source Tracking:</strong> See exactly which websites (Wikipedia, Reddit, G2, Product Hunt) the AI models are fetching data from to recommend you.</li> <li> <strong>Actionable Fixes:</strong> It doesn't just show data; it gives you concrete tasks (e.g., <em>"Reply to this specific Reddit thread where your competitor has 18 mentions and you have 2"</em>).</li> </ul> <h2> 🛠️ The Tech Stack Behind It </h2> <p>Building a platform that reliably queries multiple LLMs at scale every single day requires a robust, snappy architecture. Here’s a peek under the hood:</p> <ul> <li> <strong>Backend &amp; Orchestration:</strong> Built using <strong>Node.js</strong> and <strong>Express</strong>, managing automated background workers to handle concurrent engine queries without hitting rate limits.</li> <li> <strong>Database Layer:</strong> Powered by <strong>MongoDB</strong> to handle structured analytics data, historical brand sentiment, and complex competitor benchmarking sets.</li> <li> <strong>Frontend Dashboard:</strong> A highly interactive <strong>React</strong> application designed to let users paste their domain and see their share-of-voice donut charts and source tracking tables in under 60 seconds.</li> </ul> <h2> 🌐 Try It Out / Feedback Welcome! </h2> <p>We are officially launching and would love to hear what the developer community thinks! </p> <p>Whether you want to track your open-source project, your SaaS product, or your personal brand, you can set it up instantly. </p> <p>👉 <strong>Check it out here:</strong> <a href="https://app.citedspy.com/dashboard" rel="noopener noreferrer">CitedSpy Dashboard</a></p> <p><em>Have questions about how we scale the background workers or handle LLM prompt consistency? Let’s discuss in the comments below!</em></p> showdev ai